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1. At the End of a Perfect Day (1915)
Short, Drama
The story opens with an old couple in the evening of life, sitting by the fireside reminiscing the happenings of their younger days. How the young man had left his country home to seek work... See full summary »
Director: George Ade | Stars: Bryant Washburn, Gerda Holmes, Harry Mainhall, Peggy Sweeney
Votes: 11
2. The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948–1950)
30 min | Drama
This was an anthology series which aired live. It often featured adaptations of one-act stage plays.
Stars: Guy Kibbee, Faye Emerson, John Conte, Vicki Cummings
Votes: 53
3. The Lotus Eater (1921)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Disillusioned in marriage, Jacques Leroi attempts an airship flight across the Pacific Ocean, but crashes and washes ashore on an island populated by a peaceful tribe of completely happy ... See full summary »
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: John Barrymore, Colleen Moore, Anna Q. Nilsson, Ida Waterman
Votes: 50
4. Young as You Feel (1931)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy
Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Will Rogers, Fifi D'Orsay, Lucien Littlefield, Don Dillaway
Votes: 48
5. The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure (1916)
Comedy, Sport
A Messenger Kid stopped to Gaze at a picture of Jess Willard in a window and began to Weep bitterly. A soft-hearted Commuter halted. "Why do you weep?" he asked. "Aw, gee, what chance have ... See full summary »
Votes: 32
6. The Fable of Higher Education That Was Too High for the Old Man (1914)
Comedy, Short
Buchanan Bartlett, shiftless son of Hiram Bartlett, farmer retired, is sent to college to learn things. Father becomes peeved when he receives a bill of expenditures a month later from his ... See full summary »
Director: George Ade | Stars: Wallace Beery, Leo White, Robert Bolder
Votes: 11
7. The County Chairman (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in Wyoming, with women's-right-to-vote playing a large role. Here, Jim Hackler, local party-boss in a ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Will Rogers, Evelyn Venable, Kent Taylor, Louise Dresser
Votes: 34
8. The Slim Princess (1915)
Comedy
Gloom overcasts the palace of Count Selim Nalagaski, governor general of Morovenia, Turkey. All efforts to make the count's elder daughter, the Princess Kalora, fat, synonymous with beauty ... See full summary »
Director: E.H. Calvert | Stars: Francis X. Bushman, Ruth Stonehouse, Wallace Beery, Harry Dunkinson
Votes: 19
9. The College Widow (1927)
67 min | Comedy, Romance
The College Widow (1927) is an American silent comedy film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Archie Mayo. The film is based on the 1904 Broadway play by George Ade ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Dolores Costello, William Collier Jr., Douglas Gerrard, Anders Randolf
Votes: 16
10. The Fair Co-Ed (1927)
71 min | Comedy
Marion goes to college to pursue a handsome young man and discovers that he is coach of a women's basketball team.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Marion Davies, Johnny Mack Brown, Jane Winton, Thelma Hill
Votes: 754 | Gross: $0.49M
11. Freshman Love (1935)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Musical
Frank McHugh is a college rowing coach, in a desperate attempt to acquire top rowers for his team, he enlists the assistance of pretty blonde Patricia Ellis to woo young hopefuls away from ... See full summary »
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Patricia Ellis, Warren Hull, Frank McHugh, Mary Treen
Votes: 151
12. Maybe It's Love (1930)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A college football player (Joe E. Brown) persuades a beautiful young woman (Joan Bennett) to individually flirt with an entire team of All-American football players, in order to entice them... See full summary »
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Joan Bennett, Joe E. Brown, James Hall, Laura Lee
Votes: 356
13. Campus Cinderella (1938)
19 min | Short, Musical, Comedy
This musical comedy has a popular basketball star playing for a different college than what his father wanted after he falls in love with a co-ed.
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Johnnie Davis, Penny Singleton, Anthony Averill, Oscar O'Shea
Votes: 132
14. Woman-Proof (1923)
80 min | Comedy
Tom Rockwood's brother and two sisters attempt to induce him to marry so that they may inherit money left to them by their father. Rockwood, a civil engineer, rescues Louise Halliday, a ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, John St. Polis, Louise Dresser
Votes: 14
15. The Confidence Man (1924)
80 min | Crime, Drama
Dan Corvan and Larry Maddox, salesmen for promoters of phony oil stock, endear themselves to the people of Fairfield, Florida, in an attempt to fleece skinflint Godfrey Queritt. When they ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Heerman | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Virginia Valli, Larry Wheat, Charles Dow Clark
Gross: $0.22M
16. The Fable of the Club Girls and the Four Times Veteran (1914)
Comedy, Short
Once a lot of grown-up girls organized a club for the discussion of current evils. The principal current evil they discussed was man. The object was to find some way to keep them home at ... See full summary »
Stars: Lillian Drew, Gloria Swanson
17. The Fable of the Film Fed Family (1917)
20 min | Short, Comedy
In one of the doubtful states was a city with more area than population, where lived the Wiggamores. The main provider for the domestic plant was one Adolphus Wiggamore. Randolph, the first... See full summary »
Director: Richard Foster Baker | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Robert Bolder, Marian Skinner
18. Father and the Boys (1915)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Lemuel Morewood is a wealthy businessman to whom riches bring no pleasure because he has entirely lost the sympathy of his sons, for whom he lives. Billy is society-mad and completely ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Digby Bell, Louise Lovely, Harry Ham, Colin Chase
19. The Fable of Sister Mae, Who Did As Well As Could Be Expected (1915)
Comedy, Short
Two sisters lived in Chicago, the Home of Opportunity. Luella was a good girl and had taken prizes at the Mission Sunday School, but she was Plain. She found employment in a Hat factory. ... See full summary »
Stars: Betty Scott, June Keith, Charles J. Stine, Sidney Ainsworth
20. Back Home and Broke (1922)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
When Tom Redding's wealthy father dies and it turns out that all he left Tom was a mountain of debts, all of his "friends" desert him--except young Mary Austin. Determined to get out from ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, Frederick Burton, Cyril Ring
Gross: $0.21M
21. The Fable of the Honeymoon That Tried to Come Back (1914)
Comedy, Short
Once there was a married couple. They were just as peaceful as a couple of Wild Cats. One morning Hubby found a book on his desk, "How to Make Your Home Happy," was the title. He gave it ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Foster Baker | Stars: Harry Dunkinson, Gerda Holmes
22. The Fable of the Preacher Who Flew His Kite But Not Because He Wished to Do So (1916)
10 min | Comedy, Short
A certain Preacher became wise to the Fact that he was not making a Hit with his Congregation. The Parishioners did not seem inclined to seek him out after services and tell him he was a ... See full summary »
23. The Fable of the Wandering Boy and the Wayward Parents (1917)
20 min | Short, Comedy
From a small seat of learning where even the consumption of water was regulated by the curators there was cast forth on the turbulent sea of worldly strife a youth, Elmer, by baptism. ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Foster Baker | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Robert Bolder, Marian Skinner, Magna Anderson
24. The Fable of the City Grafter and the Unprotected Rubes (1915)
Comedy, Short
"Sure-thing" Steve and his pals searched the map for prospective country towns in which they could bunco the inhabitants. They decided the town of Simpville would fall for a fake auction ... See full summary »
Stars: Rapley Holmes, Robert Bolder, Leo White
25. Just Out of College (1920)
50 min | Comedy
In order to win the hand of the girl he loves, Ed Swinger creates a phony business to fool her father.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Jack Pickford, Molly Malone, George Hernandez, Edythe Chapman
26. Artie, the Millionaire Kid (1916)
50 min | Comedy
Young Artie Hamilton gets expelled from college, and his angered father--a wealthy railroad baron--throws him out of the house. Artie tells his father that within a year he'll have made ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Handworth | Stars: Ernest Truex, Dorothy Kelly, Albert Roccardi, John T. Kelly
27. The Slim Princess (1920)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Kalora is the "slim princess of Morevana," a land in which fat is prized. This distresses her family, who must marry off Kalora, before her rotund younger sister Papova may wed. To remedy ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Mabel Normand, Hugh Thompson, Tully Marshall, Russ Powell
28. Three Boiled Down Fables (1914)
Short, Comedy
#1: The Household Comedian; #2: Why Essie's Friends Got the Fresh Air; #3: The Prevailing Craze.
Director: George Ade | Stars: Harry Dunkinson, Gerda Holmes, Leo White, Wallace Beery
29. Our Leading Citizen (1922)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Story of a war hero who preferred fishing to politics.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Lois Wilson, William P. Carleton, Theodore Roberts
Gross: $0.11M
30. The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket (1915)
Comedy, Short
Alexander, Elvira's husband, was the biggest man in town and had plenty of coin. Elvira and her daughter, Farina, met a lady who had traveled abroad. She pumped them full, so they attack ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Foster Baker | Stars: Lillian Drew, Gloria Swanson, Rapley Holmes, Gerda Holmes
31. Marse Covington (1915)
50 min | Drama
Proud Confederate Captain Covington Halliday refuses to allow his daughter Martha to marry Northern lawyer Walter Lewis. As a boy, Covington was given an African American servant named Dan,... See full summary »
Director: Edwin Carewe | Stars: Edward Connelly, Louise Huff, John J. Williams, Lyster Chambers
32. Fore! (1922)
Documentary, Short, Sport
Slow motion analysis of golf champions with Jesse Guilford, Walter Hagen, Glenna Collett, Grantland Rice and personalities such as Ring Lardner, George Ade and kid champions.
Stars: George Ade, Glenna Collett, Jesse Guilford, Walter Hagen
33. The County Chairman (1914)
Comedy, Drama
Jim Hackler is the political boss of a small town. When local lawyer Elias Rigby decides to run for Distrct Attorney, Hackler sees a chance to get revenge on Rigby--years ago both men were ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Harold Lockwood, Macklyn Arbuckle, Willis P. Sweatnam, William Lloyd
34. The Fable of Hifaluting Tillie and Her Plain Parents (1915)
Comedy, Short
When Tillie left her country home for the seminary, she was just a plain Gawk, but when she returned a year later, she was a Glorious Butterfly. She gazed at her birth place and said it was... See full summary »
Stars: Peggy Sweeney, Rapley Holmes, Clara Smith
35. Making the Grade (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Lois Moran, Edmund Lowe, Lucien Littlefield, Al Hart
36. The Fable of the Fellow Who Had a Friend Who Knew a Girl Who Had a Friend (1915)
Comedy, Short
Mr, Angora, an easy-going chap, was called up by a lodge brother who knew a Corker who had a school chum visiting her. They went to call. The school chum proved to be a lemon, and when Mr. ... See full summary »
Stars: Leo White, Royal Douglas
37. The Fable of Prince Fortunatus, Who Moved Away from Easy Street, and Silas, the Saver, Who Moved In (1917)
10 min | Short, Comedy
Once upon a time a boy named Claude was born with a plated-ware spoon in his mouth. When he was 21 the family plunder was pushed over to him. About this time an alfalfa product named Silas ... See full summary »
Director: Fred E. Wright | Stars: Paul Harvey, Ullrich Haupt, Katherine Amos, John Cossar
38. The Fable of the Bachelor and the Back-Pedal (1915)
Short, Comedy
Once there was a bachelor who lived in a furnished room. He loved his Juliet and wanted to pay her board for life, so by rigid economy in six months he saved $28.00. He drew out the whole ... See full summary »
Stars: Sidney Ainsworth, Lillian Drew, Betty Scott
39. The Fable of the Busy Man and the Idle Woman (1915)
Comedy, Short
The hard-working business fellow goes to his daily toil, leaving his wife behind. At 9:30 the poor slave is grinding away. He answers a couple of letters and stocks up on food for the ... See full summary »
Stars: Harry Dunkinson, Lillian Drew, Betty Scott
40. The Fable of the Heir and the Heiress (1915)
Comedy, Short
Once upon a time there was a Work-horse who had Mormon whiskers and a Mackerel Eye. He was out for the Kale, and would lie awake nights scheming how he could Corner more Collateral. He was ... See full summary »
Stars: Charles J. Stine, Earl Stanhope, Peggy Sweeney
41. The Fable of the Struggle Between Personal Liberty and the Wave of Reform (1915)
Comedy, Short
In the wide-open days the old Gam would go to his office in the morning and sell a bundle of green goods. At noon he would drop into a pool room and take a slant at the New Orleans entries.... See full summary »
Stars: E.H. Calvert, Betty Scott, Royal Douglas
42. The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in (1914)
Comedy, Short
The Busy Business Boy lands at his desk like the Early Bird with the intention of tearing off a week or two of correspondence in an hour or so. But the Napoleon of finance reckons not with ... See full summary »
Director: George Ade | Stars: Wallace Beery, Robert Bolder, Mildred Considine, Leo White
43. The Fable of the Home Treatment and the Sure Cure (1915)
Comedy, Short
Once there was a leading citizen with a daughter named Bernice, who was some offspring. One day Bernice found something out in the sunshine and put it on the rug for father to look at. He ... See full summary »
Stars: Charles J. Stine, Frances Raymond, Peggy Sweeney, Albert Martin
44. The Fable of the Search for Climate (1915)
Comedy, Short
Once there was a poor Gloomer who had time-tabled himself all over the Globe, trying to find a climate that would enable him to rise each A.M. feeling fit as a fiddle. His private drug ... See full summary »
45. Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind (1914)
Short, Comedy
The first story is: "The Fable of Another Side-track and the Fatal Album".
Director: George Ade | Stars: Wallace Beery, Charlotte Mineau, Robert Bolder
46. The Fable of the Regular Beanery and the Preachy Newcomer (1914)
Comedy, Short
The occupants of Mrs. Pruyne's boarding house were very congenial, and everything sailed smoothly until one day Mrs. Fuller Speed blew in. She got the goat of every male in the flock. They ... See full summary »
47. The Fable of Napoleon and the Bumps (1914)
Comedy, Short
He was too big for this world when a Phrenologist told him he was a modern Napoleon. He tried to stop the traffic and the crossing policeman raised a beautiful billiard ball on his ivory ... See full summary »
Director: George Ade | Stars: Beverly Bayne, Wallace Beery, Leo White, Robert Bolder
48. The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed (1914)
Comedy, Short
The coming "champ" decides he is so good he can go around a Dub like a Cooper around a Barrel. He books up with a Foxy Manager. They arrange to pick out Soft Ones to begin with and work up ... See full summary »
Director: George Ade | Stars: Wallace Beery, Robert Bolder, Eddie Redway, Harry Dunkinson
49. The Fable of the Men at the Women's Club (1915)
Comedy, Short
The club would round up once each week at homes of members to read papers, followed by discussion, after which somebody would pour. It was suspected that Josephine only came to the Brain ... See full summary »
Stars: Ruth Stonehouse, Helen Dunbar, Charles J. Stine
50. The Prevailing Craze (1914)
Short, Comedy
Stars: Wallace Beery, Harry Dunkinson, Gerda Holmes, Charlotte Mineau